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Two years exactly have passed since I completed the writing of Collusion across the Jordan. This book turned out to be even more controversial than I expected. Numerous reviews of the book have been published, ranging from the laudatory to the vitriolic. I am grateful to all the reviewers whether for their praise or for their criticism. The criticisms were particularly helpful to me when I embarked on the task of preparing the present paperback edition. This paperback edition differs from the original hardback in two major ways: title and length. Both require a word of explanation.
The word ‘collusion’ figured both in the title of the original book and in the interlocking set of arguments which presented Britain as an accessory to the understanding between King Abdullah and the Zionists about the partition of Palestine at the expense of the Palestinians. Much of the criticism of the book focused on the use of the polemical word ‘collusion’. Collusion, according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is a ‘secret agreement or understanding for purposes of trickery or fraud; underhand scheming or working with another’. It is clearly a loaded and pejorative term. Abdullah and the Zionists, so the argument runs, behaved as any realistic statesman would have done in seeking to avert a clash through peaceful adjustment and mutual recognition of each other’s essential interests. Far from collusion, this recognition of mutual interests, it is claimed, is the very essence of diplomacy. Nor is there anything unusual or immoral in the resort to secret diplomacy since a great deal of what transpires between actors in international politics has, by its very nature, to be kept secret. Such is the game of nations.
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